Kwangsik Park

Born in Gwangju on 20 October 1991, Kwangsik Park — who also appears professionally as Kwangsik Luca Park — sings bass and bass-baritone roles in opera and concert. The Innkeeper and the Sergeant in Manon Lescaut took him to the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and Sparafucile in Rigoletto to the Macerata Opera Festival. He took a degree in music and literature in Korea before moving to Italy, where he completed his diploma at the Parma Conservatory as a pupil of Romano Franceschetto and went on to study with Raina Kabaivanska. He won the Piero Cappuccilli prize in Alessandria and the Voltolini prize at Buscoldo, and graduated from the Scuola dell'Opera of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. His first Ferrando in Il trovatore was sung at Vercelli and his first Zaccaria in Nabucco at Sordevolo, in a production originating at the Teatro Coccia di Novara; Macbeth and Il trovatore followed in Bologna and Aida at Novara, with concerts in Parma, Bologna, Milan and Mantua.